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Interview with Civil Rights Activist Tracy Sims

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Crouchett, Lawrence P.

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San Francisco civil rights activist Tracy Sims was born in 1945 in Oakland, California. Sims was involved with the San Francisco NAACP chapter Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination in 1963. The Committee organized demonstrations which called attention to discriminatory employment practices. Sims's first experience picketing was at the Mel's Drive-In protest in November 1963. She later participated in "shop-ins " at the Lucky Grocery Store on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Chosen because of her energy and public speaking ability, Sims became, at age 18, one of the spokespersons for the largest civil rights protest in San Francisco history. She led pickets against the exclusion of blacks and other workers of color from the staff of the Sheraton-Palace.

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Source material provided by African American Museum and Library at Oakland. Preserved and made available online by California Revealed. California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
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2020-05-07 01:18:32
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Oral histories
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